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Arkansas Licensing Board For Home Inspectors Will Be Combined With Two Others Under Bill
It would abolish the Arkansas Abstracters' Board, Home Inspector Registration Board, and Appraiser Licensing and Certification Board.
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Arkansas GOP Passes Bill That Continues Party's Attack On LGBTQ+ Community
It would add the proposed Class C misdemeanor offense to existing state law regarding sexual indecency with a child.
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Arkansas House Committee Rejects Abortion Exemption For Fatal Prenatal Conditions
A new exemption to the state's abortion ban was rejected.
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Arkansas Senate Passes Amended Net Metering After Companion Bill Stalls On House Floor
Senate Bill 295, sponsored by Sen. Jonathan Dismang (R-Beebe), passed on a vote of 24-9 and was immediately sent to the House.
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Arkansas Committee Rejects Proposed Law To Hold Libraries Accountable For "Obscene" Material
The House Judiciary Committee voted down with a voice vote after three hours of discussion and testimony.
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Arkansas Legislator, In Lock-Step With GOP Playbook, Says Ending "State-Sponsored' Discrimination" Is Aim Of His Bill
Republican Sullivan's goal apparently is to do away with programs that encourage hiring of women and people of color.
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Arkansas House Votes To Increase Homestead Tax Credit By $50
The report states the tax credit would increase to $425, from $375.
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Amended Bill Restricting Transgender Adults' Bathroom Use Will Return To Arkansas Senate
The report indicates Republicans sponsored this bill which Democratic representatives said brings harm to children.
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Arkansas Governor's Education Package Returns To Senate For Final Legislative Approval
Senate Bill 294 is expected to clear the Senate and become law this week.
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Heightened Requirements To Put Measures On The Arkansas Ballot Awaits Sanders's Signature
It would require canvassers to gather signatures from at least 50 counties — up from the 15-county threshold laid out in Article 5.
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Little Rock Central High Students Protest Sanders's Legislative Agenda
The report says Sanders disguises as "indoctrination" her racist ban on critical race theory, calls her "antithetitical" to school values.
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Chicken Farms Hide In Plain Sight Under Arkansas Law
That's because chicken houses — and all such industrial housing associated with the poultry industry — are exempt.
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SESSION SNAPSHOT: Arkansas LEARNS Marches Through The Arkansas House
Herein are the odds and ends, tidbits, and unique baubles that occur in the House sessions.
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Arkansas House Approves Governor's Education Legislation, Sends Back To Senate
After about an hour-and-a-half of debate, lawmakers passed it, also called the LEARNS Act, by a vote of 78-21.
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Arkansas Bill To Remove Work Permit Requirement For Children Under 16 Goes To Sanders's Desk
Known also as the Youth Hiring Act, it would delete the portion of existing law that requires an employment certificate.
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Arkansas Psychiatrist Suspected Of Fraud Steps Down From Chairman Position On Medical Board
In a special meeting Thursday, the board voted to accept Hyatt's resignation but allow him to remain on the board as a non-executive member.
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Arkansas House Panel Approves Governor's Education Package
The report indicates the decision followed 10 hours of discussion.
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Arkansas Bill Restricting Transgender Adults' Bathroom Use Will Be Amended, Returned To Committee
Sen. John Payton (R-Wilburn), the sponsor, pulled the bill from consideration on the Senate floor Wednesday in order to clarify language.
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Arkansas Medical Board Chairman Suspended From State Medicaid Program
The chairman of the Arkansas State Medical Board has been suspended from the Arkansas Medicaid Program, and is under investigation.
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Paper Ballot Bill Passes Arkansas Senate
It would require counties that move to hand-marked, hand-counted ballots to bear the cost of printing paper ballots.